Galina Konstantinovna Smirnova (January 20, 1910 - 1980) [1] [2] was a Russian composer, [3] [4] musicologist, and radio music editor [5] who used folk songs in her compositions [6] and composed at least one film score. [7]
Smirnova was born in Moscow. She studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Vissarion Shebalin from 1932 to 1940. Few details are available about her work as a musicologist and radio editor. Her music was published by Sovetskii Kompozitor [8] and was recorded commercially by Albany Records U.S. [9] Her compositions include:
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throughout his life as a major composer.
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Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin was a Soviet composer.
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Cynthia Cozette Lee, also known as Cynthia Cozette or Nazik Cynthia Cozette is a contemporary African-American classical music composer and librettist. Cozette was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Arts degree in music composition. Cozette was also the first African-American woman graduate of the University of Pennsylvania to be instructed in music composition by the American composers, George Crumb and George Rochberg.
for the composer Galina Smirnova, see Galina Konstantinovna Smirnova
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Barbara Maria Zakrzewska-Nikiporczyk is a composer and musicologist who was born in Poznań, Poland. She studied composition with Florian Dąbrowski at the Poznań Academy of Music, graduating in 1969. She finished her postgraduate studies in library and information science in 1974; two years later she received a doctorate at the Institute of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She studied electronic music for three months in Utrecht, Netherlands, in 1981, and in Oxford, England.
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Ana Serrano Redonnet was an Argentine author, composer, conductor, guitarist and music critic who promoted Argentine folk music and used its themes in her own compositions. Her birth year is variously given as 1910, 1914, or 1916.
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